Êxodo 24:2

2 Só Moisés se chegará ao Senhor; os, outros não se chegarão; nem o povo subirá com ele.

Êxodo 24:2 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 24:2

And Moses alone shall come near the Lord
Into the cloud where he was, and talk with him face to face, as a man talketh with his friend; which was great nearness indeed, and a peculiar favour and high honour was this:

but they shall not come nigh;
Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel:

neither shall the people go up with him;
not any of them, much less the whole body. It seems, by this account, that Moses had been down from the mount after he had received the laws recorded in the two preceding chapters; though as yet he had not related them to the people, but did before he went up again by the above order, as appears from what follows.

Êxodo 24:2 In-Context

1 Depois disse Deus a Moisés: Subi ao Senhor, tu e Arão, Nadabe e Abiú, e setenta dos anciãos de Israel, e adorai de longe.

2 Só Moisés se chegará ao Senhor; os, outros não se chegarão; nem o povo subirá com ele.

3 Veio, pois, Moisés e relatou ao povo todas as palavras do Senhor e todos os estatutos; então todo o povo respondeu a uma voz: Tudo o que o Senhor tem falado faremos.

4 Então Moisés escreveu todas as palavras do Senhor e, tendo-se levantado de manhã cedo, edificou um altar ao pé do monte, e doze colunas, segundo as doze tribos de Israel,

5 e enviou certos mancebos dos filhos de Israel, os quais ofereceram holocaustos, e sacrificaram ao Senhor sacrifícios pacíficos, de bois.